For Your iOS Enjoyment : Portland Art Museum’s Place-Based App
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For Your iOS Enjoyment : Portland Art Museum’s Place-Based App
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The same institution is engaged in a similar experiment with its new mobile app, which ties information about key works of art with the iPhones of its visitors.
The new Portland Art Museum iPhone app is built on top of a platform called Meridian, by a company called Spotlight Mobile. The platform provides content and venue owners a super-simple graphic user interface to upload digital assets, input text and other information and then click to associate those assets with a very particular place in a particular room on a map.